Hillenbrand explores the extraordinary risks faced by America's WWII airmen: 54,00 men killed in combat, 36,000 killed in noncombat aircraft accidents, and a stunning 15,000 men killed in stateside training–at times, an average of 19 per day. Men faced a 50% chance of being killed during combat tours of only 30-40 missions. Were you aware of the dangers faced by airmen in the Pacific war? What facts and stories were most surprising to you?

Answer and Explanation:

1. I was already aware that all the men who participated in the pacific war faced great danger, including savioristas. This is because being involved in a war, includes risking, at all times, being hit by the enemy army, whose main objective is to cause their death, or disability, reducing the army's proactivity. This reinforces the idea that the wars are very disadvantageous scenarios and capable of causing a lot of pain and suffering to all those involved in it.

2. As a war is a devastating thing, by nature, no particular fact or story was able to surprise me, but we were always shocked when we discovered the number of deaths caused in battles. This was no different when I read the text, since the death number left me stunned and with a strong feeling of remorse.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

in june, we will have been married for eighteen months. (i am assuming this is what you want? the sentence, as you have presented it, is grammatically incorrect--   you want it corrected, yes? )